Sir Joseph Ward.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4433, 8 July 1909, Page 3

Sir Joseph Ward.

PROTECTION BY A DETECTIVE.

THREATENING LETTER PUBLISHED.

Wellington, July 6. Tiie following letter, which has been been placedat the disposal of the New Zealand Times, throws light on the recent statements that have been published in reference to the alleged protection by Detective Cassells of the Prime Minister on his visit to London : Sir J. G. Ward, P.C., K.C.M.G., Prime Minister of New Zealand.—Right Hon. Sir, —Doubtless you will remember me as having been last year introduced to you by my friend the Rt. Hon. Thomas Burt, M.P., by letter at the Hotel Cecil in Loudon. Then you pledged me your influence and interest if I would go to New Zealand. You know how you have carried out your pledge. I have been ruined by you. I have been separated from my family for the time intervening, have broken my health, am beggared, and on receipt of the enclosed letter just received have arranged “to work my passage ” Home to my unfortunate family. The knowledge that the good woman, who was always till I met you kept in comfort befitting her feeble condition, is now in a lodging-house with my innocent child without a shilling. [ and I all thes6 16,006 miles from them unable to aid them in any way, must be pleasing to a man of your nature. Were I less of a Christian than I am I would go and shoot you down like the dog that you are. I shall, however, leave you to Him who is not mocked. The enclosed letter please read to your family. It doubtless>will amuse them. Keep it, and when your final hour may couie - it cannot iu God’s mercy be much longer delajed—may its tragedy of which you are guilty be with your blackened soul as it passes into eternity. “ God is not mocked.”—Yours truly, [ in the spirit of this letter, R. Chisholm Robertson.